Show off your Mountain Bike!!!

I watched them. I just bought this bike and want to ride this weekend too. I’m gonna work on my own bikes but I’m still just learning for now. I didn’t sit there and play on my phone the whole time. I watched.

 

Hahahah dummy.

Bikes just seem so precise. I can cut off leaf springs and install a 63 swap on a taco no problem.

But this little bike stuff worries my big hands hahahahaha

 

Exactly lol so you know eventually I’ll stert working and modding it myself but for now, I’m just enjoying the simple life lol.

I’ll have to buy a mechanic stand and tools and all that eventually for sure.

This hobby rocks though.

 

Bleeding brakes and adjusting a derailleur are probably the hardest, other than dealing with press-fit bearings (unless you have the right tools). Even those just take patience and following the procedure. Everything else is pretty simple. Seating a tubeless tire can be trying, but easier if you have a compressor.

Probably the most annoying thing is finding and fixing creaks. I like a quiet bike, like no noise. Ever. Most of the time it is just grit that works its way into the seat tube. Harmless but annoying.

 

I bought this in 1997. I have hardly ridden it in years. It was more bike than I ever needed. Unfortunately, it seems like these are pretty obsolete now. Otherwise I would sell it.

Still, I'm sure someone will appreciate it. It's almost more of a collector's item now.

 

That just looks like the 90’s and that makes it rad as fuck.

 

I tried riding it again a few years ago. I bought a padded old man seat, and some fancy hand-grips. I just can't seem to do it. I think I have carpal tunnel. My hands go numb after about 10 minutes.

 

What would be dangerous about it?

And what the hell is a gimcrack?

 

gimcrack | ˈjimˌkrak |
adjective: flimsy or poorly made but deceptively attractive: plastic gimcrack cookware.
noun: a cheap and showy ornament; a knickknack.

 

Well I learned a new word today.

But, its definitely not flimsy. I'm sure there's better bikes now. But, if it didn't break when I wiped out off the bluff by lake Michigan, it probably would never break from normal use.

 

Great content here for a Monday! Love the classics, if I saw someone shredding that Y bike I would have tons of respect. I might feel a bit sad, but if they were having fun? Respect.
I keep my wife's Trek 930 hanging in the garage, one of the best hardtails made and worth more to me than I could sell it for. It's been ridden less than 5 miles.

 

I guess I am too much of a bike snob, ex-MTB racer dude. TREK's early single-pivot suspension was considered to be a poor design BITD when I was racing, and when rear suspension mountain bikes were novelties.

The best suspension bikes of that era were the Horst-link designs, such as the Dagger and AMP. Those eventually evolved into the multi-link designs we see today. Other (simpler) designs that proved out over time were the Santa Cruz Heckler/Superlight, which were based on single-pivot motorcycle designs such as the Yamaha YZ.

TREK and Schwinn tried to go their own way and build something that didn't have to pay royalty fees to motorcycle designers or OEM's... something that was "optimized" for bicycles.

Schwinn and TREK designers thought having a unified rear triangle and a fixed chain length were more important for climbing and winning races (so did their marketers, natch).

As it turns out, the relationship between front chain angle, under load, to the front suspension pivot angle, and that relation to the rear axle, were more important for a rideable bicycle.

Put the pivot close to the (real or virtual) pivot angle of the chain, under load... that gets the best traction to the rear wheel, under load. The unified designs had a fixed chain length, but the forward pivot and Horst-link designs had a straight(ish) pull between the rear axle and the forward pivot.

Unfortunately, Schwinn and TREK built systems that put the pivot point above and close to centerline of the bottom bracket (axle of the crank). This tended to buck forward and shorten the wheelbase under braking, and also tended to pitch riders over the bars, instead of absorbing rear-wheel impact. The mechanical advantage of the fixed chainline (for uphills) proved to be less important for overall handling, than a direct link between the head tube and the rear axle.

 

I remember hearing that they were a bad design, but never understood why. That was an excellent explanation! Thank you!

Maybe I can sell it to a collector. Even if I started riding again, I never would do anything that would require full suspension.

I have all of the original parts. Tires are even original, but dry rotted.

 

Yeah, they are fun bikes to ride, and interesting to look at. They are actually pretty good for cranking out the miles on gravel roads... not so good for flying downhill on bumpy single track.

 

I put a lot of miles on it in the one summer I actually rode it. Then I got my driver's license and turned into a lazy piece of shit. Something I've been working on turning around, but progress is slow.

 

Nothing fancy but it gets me onto the trails

2018 RSD sergeant Ti frame, 1x11 and 27.5+ hoops

 

I remember drooling over these as a kid back in my BMX days when I first started getting into mountain biking. Nostalgic AF

 

Sweet bike! I’d say a ti frame is pretty fancy haha

 

I have carried one with me and the damn thing must weigh like 4 lbs.........heading over to buy the GI can o bacon you linked instead, lol